Nor'easter Bears Down on Weary East Coast

11/7/2012 5:19PM

The winter-weather system moving to the Northeast prompted familiar warnings Tuesday. Eric Holthaus reports on The News Hub. Plus, hundreds of storm evacuees from shelters in N.J. were relocated to a tent city as Aaron Rutkoff explains.

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... the the ... now looks like it still close down more than three hundred points ... meanwhile a snowstorm is descending on the northeast in the wake of superstorm Sandy ... will have back and mall ... right and ... right now on the New Saab good afternoon and welcome ... I'm Simon Constable winning a straight a ... Eric Holthaus II's Wall Street Journal's contributing major alleges he Johns's now from Tucson ... aam heretic I mean you said this was coming and knew well writes ... it's then the clay ... it is for your city ... that and and surrounding areas aam EU directive cannot make the long Island and New Jersey particularly ... on Iran what can we expect some an outlook that Simon Singh's snow and freezing rain one else ... I ... it is a mean there's been isn't bad news ... coming through the action in ... the latest ... forecast models show that the storm of Chocula for offshore ... which means that coastal flooding will be reduced but we still have ... a risk of a three to four feet of storm surge ... from this ... no worries there ... roughly equivalent to what we experienced during a rain and winds top ... of the coastal flooding ... the biggest revenue would be to long Island sound over the next three to four hours ... that that that that this is a wild man of the prongs on Long Island and ... places like the last one of the women's health plans that they can be telling ... but being the excellent service launched a special little in the second day because the East arm of the and they found sixty mile ... an hour winds down a hundred feet off the ground so ... we can see the wind us work through to the surface of the next ... six to twelve hours ... but mostly ... rose in after you were ... not sustained winds for twelve hours ... it's snowing throughout most of that time so could be near what condition the Times ... in Artisan areas which ... Irwin Renault ... to be a stretch from Philadelphia ... through the northwest of words in your city to Connecticut Maine ... Manly's CEO to insist the ten inch of snow ... so the couple things on my ham them from from my knowledge is one you know wind and snow that means drafts Ryan ... the paper in the heading ... back in the snow yet do the guts of phones that so that's that's all will know or are turning to slush ... um ... but that is Serena's dreaded been in traveling conditions sometime tonight ... not a good time to be our new for ... her ... phone and right ... now and it deftly not now though still some leaves on the trees on when the snow falls will land ... on them with the winds will cause more problems with trees being down ... yes it's a kind of a similar situation issues here who well we had last year this time when we have a big snowstorm written for ... how we ... I'm wary still do a lot of trees on ... we use on the trees ... and Cindy also has regional our tree is either broken branches or purchase lists ... and buildings were ... on ... cars rear engined some other ways ... so back to back and read also ... I'm ... an air Horn hazard in harnessing wind industry immediately hit the coast ... well let's hope this is all right pessimist in Islam that has allowed me to have a very good track record of this thank you thank you Grandma frankly that Eric Holthaus Wall Street John all ... contributing major alleges ... there was just in time for the stolen some evacuees in New Jersey and being transferred to a tent city ... Rockoff will be great annual section ... joins us now on the set to tells about this ... um ... that's a rough month ... here we just hung out about this earlier this afternoon in our reporter was actually there ... before the evacuees arrived in intensity ... I will be discovered is that a few people being a house at ... Monmouth University a number of other ... of places to route the suburban area on New Moment racetrack ... of the universe in other places needed the space back is with the Red Cross told us and so the decision was made to move ... several hundred evacuees at least ... into this tent city ... which was erected initially service housing for utility workers ... who bought into the region of the recovery effort and then the ... state not actually on the BBC in what has been a lot of people it can be in the stands now actually done happens to galactic habitable or evening says that all ... the trip and we don't know exactly who these people are but we know that the deed leave their houses there before the storm under evacuation orders for Daytona we just returned to now because of damage to their house and our reporter was out there I mean Chris Weaver is doing amazing work on the recovery in New Jersey ... he says that a lot of them are people using wheelchairs and walkers to get around allotments and the elderly ... ah so you know not not people to easily handle the conditions out there to how it ends can it do with all the stuff for my own house which was at thirty to forty on a sustained winds ... and snow ... and low self ... taught me so ... I mean ... you can clearly this is a situation that causes conservative are reporting on it but I know one of the situation of these are flimsy Kevin turns out there these are very large what he ... you know tends to look beyond more like structures ... he saw the flap swung around in the win today but the workers there told them that these are built to withstand the source of winter they expect to see in the storm ... many Herrera talk about the high winds ... you know peanut and for that sort of weather would be difficult I mention that these ... are items that electricity ... and heat ... ALM so they're not exactly exposed to um it's one of the more troubling sounding things about the situation there is that the ... toilets are all aam ... in attendance Palestine of a lot of money ... and be very difficult to access if you were getting around and Walker said ... it's not an ideal situation by a longshot ... thank you Brian much drop off and on the story on the vs day don't come by Christopher ... Weaver